Order upon the chaos of life

In decline and fall, evelyn waugh has a tendency make a parody of the world. His ludicrious satire of the modernist world, however, does not stem from pure cynicism alone. Waugh expouses the failings of this world and impossibility to impose the order seen in the past on the chaos caused by the trappings of modern life. To take a different angle on his perspective, the romanticized view of a world lost with the passing of time, is all that is left to those of us caught up in the whirldwind that is modern life. To quote Forster, "Pathos, ethos and piety, everything exists, nothing has value," or does it? discipline in the life of a student of war lies at the heart of the matter. discipline coupled with belief and virtue, values from another time, are possibly the key to living life in a meaning way. it means nothing to be a dumb jock, neither does it mean anything to be a pure intellectual. But synthesis of both in an environment of discipline will mean something.